![]() The ending sees the Gundam pilots, Milliardo, Noin and a large group of regular civilians stand up to Mariemaia and take out their mobile suits specifically without hurting the pilots in order to show them how peace can still be achieved… or something. Although he doesn’t do much else beyond that, I did enjoy him and Noin getting together properly, and his suit, the Tallgeese III, is a fun design. So there you go, peace hasn’t been achieved forever, who would have thought? As the Gundam pilots either fight amongst themselves or scramble to get their suits back (again, see below) the former Zechs / Milliardo, now just going by the codename “Wind”, begins to attack Mariemaia’s forces directly, eventually reuniting with his on-again, off-again love interest Noin. ![]() The key plot is the previously mentioned Dekim Barton has teaming with the young daughter of Treize Khushrenada named Mariemaia (yes, “Mariemaia Khushrenada”, trying spelling that out when you’re at school!) to form a new army out in a distant space colony, and to top it all off they kidnap key politician Relena to try and force Mariemaia to become the ruler of the whole ESUN. It has some serious holes (See below!) but there are good moments. “What about the actual plot of Endless Waltz?” I hear you ask? Well… it’s okay. The Tallgeese III is still one of my favourite designs. I really… REALLY had to question why these interesting and important reveals weren’t shown during the actual series, a series where the five protagonists were pretty much trapped in the same personalities for the entire runtime, but it was nice to get them at all… Wufei’s colony was actually the one that was going to be dropped, so he stole the Gundam to end the war before the plan could happen, and Quatre… was so nice and naïve that his scientist just told him to take the Gundam and follow his heart. ![]() No Name arrives and says he saw what happened and he can become Trowa Barton instead and take the Gundam, but he won’t follow the Operation’s near-genocidal goal, which was fine by the scientists. He was a wandering soldier with no name who was working on the Gundam Heavyarms when the actual Trowa Barton (son of key Operation Meteor plotter Dekim Barton) is killed by an associate of Trowa’s Scientist who couldn’t go through with the Operation. Duo tried to destroy his Gundam rather than take part in the slaughter (and become a “God of Death”), but his scientist told him to steal it and used it for good instead… while still calling himself a “God of Death”… which he of course did! He then fought to end the wars via attacking OZ rather than take out the majority of the planet’s population, all with the blessing of his scientist. Heero was actually a smiley happy teen who admittedly still did sabotage missions, but then he accidentally caused a building full of innocent people get caught in the crossfire, including a little girl and her dog he’d met earlier, and became traumatised. We find out that the original Operation Meteor mentioned at the start of the Wing series was supposed to be dropping a colony on Earth and then sending the Gundams down to the planet to do clean up, but each of the pilots and their respective scientists went against the plan. I think the main thing about Endless Waltz isn’t so much the continuation of the After Colony timeline but rather finally filling in some unanswered questions. “The series is reaching its end… Time to add an actual backstory to our lead protagonist!” ![]()
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